Natural-language syntax as procedures for interpretation: The dynamics of ellipsis construal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6505, Issue , 2011, Pages 114-133

  Kempson, Ruth ^a   Gregoromichelaki, Eleni ^a   Meyer Viol, Wilfried ^a   Purver, Matthew ^b   White, Graham ^b   Cann, Ronnie ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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CONTEXT DEPENDENT; FORMAL THEORY; MONOTONIC GROWTH; PARTIAL STRUCTURES; PARTIAL TREES; PRIMARY DATA; SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS;

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EID: 79956130352     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19211-1_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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